Dave Chappelle Enters Mental Ward

Updated: 5:28 pm PT

SOUTH AFRICA – Comedian Dave Chappelle, best known for his break out hit, “The Chappelle Show,” has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa, prompting vast speculation regarding the reason for his meltdown.

Chappelle had began filming the third season of his hugely popular show on Comedy Central when sources say that he became emotionally distressed and disappeared from the set. It seems that Chappelle voluntarily checked himself into a mental health clinic in South Africa. Production of the show has been halted until the situation can be resolved.

News of Dave’s disappearance generated a variety of theories about what may have went wrong. Among the list were drug use, creative differences with the network, and a simple breakdown under the pressure.

It seems that the true problem is much more complicated. Dave Chappelle was one of many black comedians who had built their career on playing The Unappreciated Black Man constantly being held back by The White Man.

In the past year, Dave had signed a $50 million deal with Comedy Central and earned a truckload of cash from DVD sales of his hit show. Dave finally realized that it was hard work and determination that had got him to the top of his industry. It was this realization that brought his self-formed reality crashing down upon him.

In a world where The White Man keeps Brothers down, hard work and dedication still aren’t enough to get to the top if you are born with dark skin. However, Dave was able to get to the top by working hard and being dedicated, and as he looked around at other successful African Americans who had put their noses to the proverbial grindstone, he knew that it wasn’t really Whitey holding his people back.

Now that Dave finally realized that white people weren’t engaged in some mass conspiracy to make his people commit crime, smoke crack, and have thousands of babies out of wedlock, he found himself with a massive case of writer’s block. Being The Enraged Black Man was all he had ever known, so this new reality didn’t provide him with entertaining material.

Chappelle felt that he needed to do something drastic to make himself an outcast again, and since he doesn’t love the cock, becoming a homosexual was out of the question. In a stroke of brilliance, he decided to check himself into the mental health clinic, thus joining the illustrious list of crazy actors.

With his new membership as a crazy actor, Dave can now write comedy about how the normal people are holding down the insane, and how it’s not the crazy people’s fault for the decisions that they make, and how crazy people are born with a disadvantage. Critics are expecting this new twist on Dave’s material to be a huge pop-culture hit. Several of the leading prescription drug companies have signed on as sponsors in light of the directional change in the show, and production is expected to resume in the next few weeks.